Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 117 114
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 +41
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 16 19 18
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.62% 0.92% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.36% 3.68% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 10
10th Percentile £366 £295 £441
25th Percentile £414 £425 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -2.13% +4.44%
75th Percentile £644 £669 £683
90th Percentile £745 £687 £754
London median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 677 516 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.06% 25.11% 23.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 344 337
10th Percentile £405 £318 £397
25th Percentile £463 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £670
90th Percentile £734 £762 £775
London median daily rate £539 £525 £530
% change year-on-year +2.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 5
10th Percentile £19.45 £25.11 £20.33
25th Percentile £26.63 £26.13 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.53 £31.78 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.86% +17.69% -23.40%
75th Percentile £60.31 £55.06 -
90th Percentile £68.53 £65.39 £37.05
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -6.85% -50.91%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -10 13 £483 -16.09% 17
Southwark - 2 £650 -
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
2 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (18.75%) Power Automate
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
6 1 (6.25%) AWS
6 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
6 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
6 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
6 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) DKIM
3 1 (6.25%) DMARC
3 1 (6.25%) LAN
3 1 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (6.25%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) Power Query
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
1 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Customer Service Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Junior DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Junior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (6.25%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) iPad
2 1 (6.25%) iPhone
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Android
3 1 (6.25%) VMS
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (31.25%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Case Management
5 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
5 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (12.50%) Analytics
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) High Availability
6 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 2 (12.50%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (6.25%) Bicep
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) MCSE
3 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) EMC
2 1 (6.25%) Okta
2 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
2 1 (6.25%) Remedy
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) VMware